On the Edge of the World
Marlène Amar
2005
Every day at siesta time, when under the scorching heat of the sun the little town of Kenadza was breathing its last, Madame Karsenty would settle down on the sofa in the living room where her son, Theophile, was dozing and rub his head. Having done the noontime dishes, Fortune, her daughter, would sit down at their feet facing them with a book…
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